February 2012
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a thing I wrote for The Rejectionist about J Franz... →
I have been a bad “fashion blogger” lately because I have been Writing Other Things, one of which is this Thing that I wrote, for Sarah’s blog, about Jonathan Franzen’s horrifying New Yorker piece on Edith Wharton. Here is some of it:
To be honest, I felt hysterical: that Victorian word for the tantrums of unstable estrogen-addled women, but that I know actually...
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IT'S ABOUT TIME
“Although the Constitution permits communities to enact most laws they believe to be desirable, it requires that there be at least a legitimate reason for the passage of a law that treats different classes of people differently. Because under California statutory law, same-sex couples had all the rights of opposite-sex couples, regardless of their marital status, all parties agree that...
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SASHA FRERE-JONES: MIA SHOULDN'T HAVE APOLOGIZED →
In the lull between Lana-gate and NYFW-death, MIA flipped America off during that big sportsball game the other day and the internet can’t stop talking about it, but thankfully Sasha Frere-Jones already said everything that needs to be said so now we can move on, right? Cool.
The outrage is tiresome and deeply hypocritical, in all the tiresome ways you’ve been tired out by before. M.I.A....
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We Need To Talk About Planned Parenthood Again
This whole Planned Parenthood/Komen thing keeps irritating me again at random points throughout my day, which is pretty crappy because it’s seriously ruined basically the past seventy two hours of my life in a pretty major way. Right when I think I’ve forgotten it or managed to distract myself, some little part of me flares up in rage again (“But what the FUCK! It’s like...
January 2012
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IN DEFENSE OF THE HOT MESS / A CALL FOR LADY...
Lately I’ve been really into weird concepts of something like failed, desperate, self-conscious deliberate performative femininity? Part of this is evidenced by the fact that I’ve been doing my hair in big curls with my kinda-crappy-blonde-dye-job and wearing a ridiculous faux-leopard coat with ripped tights and messy eyeliner, and part of it comes together more in at least 47...
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December 2011
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THIS IS THE LAST TIME WE TALK ABOUT LISBETH...
Sarah and I have been e-mailing way too much about this goddamned Lisbeth Salander collection, which I’ve mentioned before? Yes? Anyhow she wrote a good thing about it so I don’t need to write another thing since it’s all the things I would think anyhow (we’re serious about the intern), but I am still e-mailing about it and wringing my hands becuase GODDAMNIT I WANT IT I...
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MAKEUP TUTORIAL PART DEUX: AFTER DARK.
OKAY KIDS. Makeup tutorial, part two time! So you did that nice classy cat-eye with the orange lipstick thing earlier in the day, right? And now you just got home from work and are going to, I don’t know, something FABULOUS and you want to look like a grungy alien witch mermaid goth from space in the 90’s or something, yeah? But like you don’t actually want to pull out the blue...
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NINA LEEN
Russian-born Nina Leen was one of the first female photographers to shoot for LIFE magazine, which, fortunately for us, means there’s a ton of her work available on the Google LIFE photo archives. While mostly known for her work with animals (including a dog named Lucky that she adopted and apparently put hats on), it’s Leen’s photographs of women that I find most...
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MAKEUP TUTORIAL (AT LONG LAST!): EVERYDAY RETRO
So you guys all comment or ask me for a makeup tutorial like once a goddamned week, I swear, and I finally did it! For some reason this felt super awkward? Like way more awkward than taking photos of my outfits? It’s really weird to do one step of your makeup and then take a picture and then after like eighteen photos I’m all “ew god that is WAY TOO MUCH OF MY FACE this is so...
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WOULD YOU LIKE US TO ASSIGN SOMEONE TO BUTTER YOUR...
FOOD POST TIME Y’ALL. Mixing sweet and savory is kind of my jam, and while my usual breakfast is pretty modest (yogurt with some almonds, fruit and a protein bar, toast with peanut butter and honey, etc) I actually have a huge weakness for breakfast pastries and muffins and sweetbreads and so on. These muffins — with no butter but full of omega-3’s from olive oil, and fiber...
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November 2011
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IN WHICH MEG LEARNS HOW TO CURL HER HAIR.
This post is about the fact that I am more than halfway through my twenties and have just started to learn how to use a curling iron. Look! I am learning!
american apparel + sharpie shirt, h+m skirt, LOTS OF HAIRSPRAY.
In general I am pretty good at girl things: I can apply liquid eyeliner perfectly in a moving taxi, and I hardly even blink at five inch heels. But one thing has always eluded...
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A BETTER VERSION OF ME: AN ESSAY ON TEN YEARS OF...
Every time I get into one of those All Time Desert Island Top Five conversations, I hesitate. I usually go for the safe, the safe and obvious — Radiohead, The Pixies, New Order, Gang of Four, maybe like Sleater Kinney or the Yeah Yeah Yeahs? But I’m always lying. Because the thing I always hesitate to admit is this: one of my favorite bands, and the band I have seen...
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LEATHER JACKETS AND LISBETH SALANDER AND ROONEY...
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 1:46 PM, the rejectionist wrote: are you going to see the us girl with the dragon tattoo? i saw the preview and there is absolutely no chance on this earth i want to watch that movie, but I REALLY REALLY NEED FOR SOMEONE TO MAKE ME A PHOTOMONTAGE OF ROONEY MARA’S OUTFITS, WILL YOU DO THIS, THERE IS NO ONE ELSE I CAN TRUST On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 1:49...
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October 2011
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KREAYSHAWN, LANA DEL REY, AND HIGH SCHOOL STYLE...
Okay, kids. I’ve been putting it off and re-editing and drafting and queueing and un-queueing a post about this for weeks now, but I need to stop waffling about it, since we need to talk about Lana Del Rey and Kreayshawn, and how I don’t hate them, and how I think the intensity and specificity of everyone else’s disdain for them is sort of shitty, and how self-righteous and...
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